Welcome to Tent City

Hôpital Sacré Coeur was built in 1968 by a Catholic congregation, Brothers of the Sacred Heart who established Center for the Rural Development of Milot (CRUDEM) to build roads, schools, wells and several co-operative ventures in Haiti. Over the years, on the back of surgeon Dr. Ted Dubuque and a grossroots movement stemming from St. Louis, MO, HSC grew from an 8 bed clinic to a 73 bed hospital as Haiti's best healthcare center.

In 1993, CRUDEM was established as a non-profit organization in the United States and took over the operations of HSC. Since then, HSC has served 56,701 Outpatient Visits, conducted 1,227 Surgeries, provided 12,840 Antiretroviral Clinic Visits, and organized 10,075 Community Health Patient Visits. Although Cap Hatien survived the earthquake relatively unscathed, hundreds of thousands of Haiti's from Port-au-Prince and the surrounding areas have resettled in the area. In response, HSC works at full capacity in the hospital and has set up a "Tent City" just next to the hospital where less critical patients are being treated and recovering.

As you can see from the these videos, these patients are not recovering on hospital beds but cots and make-shift beds. The 100 Beds for Haiti campaign is working alleviate this problem, and as you will observe an additional 100 beds is critical.

The Entrance to Tent City



Inside one of the tents